It’s a joy listening to operatic melodies like Puccini’s O Mio Babbino Caro with an unmatched level of detail and definition, and while it likely won’t impress true audiophiles, it’ll blow the socks off of just about everyone else. More specifically, the bass performance is phenomenal, able to handle even intense bass from tracks like Billie Eilish’s Bury a Friend and 6ix9ine’s Gooba, but that doesn’t come at the sacrifice of the mids or highs, with accurate mid-range sounds and crisp, bright high frequencies, and that’s true at any volume. It’s an eye-opening (or should I say ear-opening) experience for music fans. I’ve picked up on new tones and sounds in songs I’ve listened to for years, whether that’s the gentle pluck of a guitar or the crisp rasp of particularly heavy vocals, and it makes me genuinely excited to re-experience some of my favourite tracks. The balanced nature of the headphones means they’re capable of handling just about any genre of music, whether that’s bass-heavy Dubstep or something a little more Classical, with amazing sound separation that allows each instrument to ‘sing’ clearly. With all that said, the AirPods Max audio performance is simply incredible. Yeah, it’s safe to say these are capable wireless headphones.

There’s a custom H1 chip in each earcup with 10 audio cores capable of performing 9 billion operations per second that, in addition to powering the Siri smarts and auto play/pause technology, offer an adaptive EQ that enhances music on the fly.

As with the in-ear AirPods, there’s a custom chipset on board, but it’s much more impressive than that of the AirPods Pro.

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